Mayor Orders All Of New Orleans Evacuated…100,000 Don’t Have Means To Leave, Tourists Stranded…
Associated Press:
A monstrous Hurricane Katrina barreled toward New Orleans on Sunday with 160-mph wind and a threat of a 28-foot storm surge, forcing a mandatory evacuation of the below-sea-level city and prayers for those who remained to face a doomsday scenario.
"Have God on your side, definitely have God on your side," Nancy Noble said as she sat with her puppy and three friends in six lanes of one-way traffic on gridlocked Interstate 10. "It's very frightening."
First Posted: 08-28-05 09:27 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM